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March 26
Leave Zeitoun for Tel el Kebir
March 29
bad rash breaks out on my face doing Route Marches preparing to leave on Friday very hot weather
March 31st
up 4.AM. Breakfast 4.45 leave camp for Massamah dusty and hot arrive at Bivouac 12 noon rest all day got hold of some lemonade and muck
April 1st
up 4.Am. Breakfast 4-45 leave Massamah 6-10 for Mahsomah fearfully hot and dusty 15 miles trip arrive at Bivuoac 4. PM. had a swim followed canal all the way,
April 2nd
be up 4.AM. Breakfast 4-45 strike camp 6-10 follow canal arrive Serapieum 3-PM., very heavy sand all the way very hot, pinched 4 doz soda water hung up at canal, 12 mile trip old hands and 27 reinforcement us 64 men in plt, had a swim in canal
15 Bdge lose 13 men died of thirst they came to salt water swamp all swim in it some go mad and drink water die afterwards, New Zealanders go out with ambulance and rescue many colonel lost his track, over page
April 10th
2 Spanish troopships pass through canal